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Guilty Gear Voice Actor Steps Down To Make Room For Black Women
17.5.2021
Erin Fitzgerald, the prolific voice actor who played Ramlethal Valentine in the Guilty Gear Xrd games, won’t be returning in the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive after stepping down to “support more work for Black actresses behind the mic.”Read more
New Mass Effect Changes Tali's Face
17.5.2021
It wasn’t the biggest of Mass Effect 3's missteps, so you’d be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, but BioWare’s trilogy did us all dirty when it spent 2.9 games building up the mystery of what Tali the Quarian looked like only to reveal...she looked like stock art of a sexy human...
'Shop Contest: Baby Fallen, Winners!
16.5.2021
Last week I asked you all to create some images featuring the adorable Fallen babies which were introduced during this latest season of Destiny 2. You all did great, but the cute Fallen baby helped a lot.Read more
Katy Perry And Pikachu Traveling Through Time Singing Songs, As They Do
14.5.2021
Remember way back in January, when I wrote “Katy Perry Teams With Pokémon For Some Sort Of 25th Anniversary Music Thing?” We now have that thing. Check out the video for Perry’s new single “Electric,” in which the singer and her Pikachu travel back in time to interfere with their unevolved forms....
Another Beautiful Day In The Galactic Empire
14.5.2021
Thom Tenery is an artist who has worked on Star Wars projects like Force Awakens, Rogue One and Solo.Read more
How Studio Ghibli Helped With The Latest Evangelion Film
13.5.2021
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno has a history that goes way back with Studio Ghibli—before it was even founded. One of the first big jobs he got in the industry was working on Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 classic Nausicaä. Read more
My Singing Monsters Comes To Consoles With A Bunch Of Non-Singing Minigames
12.5.2021
Mobile hit My Singing Monsters is a game about collecting and breeding musical monsters whose unique noises join together to create beautiful music. Coming to consoles this November, My Singing Monsters Playground is a party game featuring more than 20 different minigames. Hopefully one of those...
Life Is Still Strange
12.5.2021
Florent Auguy is an artist from France who has worked on stuff like Into the Spider-Verse and Detroit: Become Human.Read more
The Mandalorian Scores Its Own Stern Pinball Machines
11.5.2021
When you’re really good you get your own pinball machine. Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian is really, really good, so it gets three. Read more
Dragon Ball Super Getting Another Movie Next Year
10.5.2021
After the Dragon Ball Super TV anime ended in spring 2018, it returned to Japanese movie theaters later that year in a feature film continuation called Dragon Ball Super: Broly (pictured, above). Now, DBS is coming back once again in 2022. Read more
I Wish This Lady Dimitrescu Action Figure Was Real
9.5.2021
Capcom, if you want to make a lot of money, watch this fake ‘90s action figure ad about Resident Evil Village’s Lady Dimitrecsu. Then make this thing a reality. Read more
Activision Cuts Ties With Call Of Duty Voice Actor Following Sexist Remarks
9.5.2021
Activision has cut ties with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Ghost voice actor Jeff Leach after a video montage was released showing him using sexist and misogynistic insults and language. Leach also voiced Ghost in Warzone.Read more
What Did Fortnite Do To My Boy?
7.5.2021
You all know I’m a fan of Meowscles, Fortnite’s needlessly sexy cat avatar introduced in Season 2. But Epic, not content to ruin my week just by making me listen to court testimony six hours a day, has given him a Steamboat Willie makeover. I’m not having it.Read more
Sega Announces Judgment Sequel
7.5.2021
It’s called Lost Judgment and once against stars celebrity Takuya Kimura as lawyer-turned-detective Takayuki Yagami.Read more
Yasuke Is A Full-Circle Moment For Black Anime Fans
6.5.2021
Watching the first episode of Yasuke, Netflix’s new fantastical animated show about the life of a Black samurai, I started to cry. I remembered how it felt to be a 16-year-old girl watching anime in the nighttime darkness of my living room. Watching Yasuke, with its titular Black character kicking...
GamesCom Wises Up, Goes Fully Digital
5.5.2021
GamesCom 2021 will be a fully digital event this year, GamesCom officials announced in a press release today. The move is a reversal of earlier plans for a semi-live event, inadvisable given the, y’know, roiling pandemic that’s still an ever-present aspect of everyday life.Read more
Almost Twenty Years Later, Muv-Luv Characters Sure Look Different
4.5.2021
Muv-Luv debuted as a visual novel way back in 2003. Now, in 2021, it’s getting a new anime series this fall. The official site has launched, and as one would expect, the character designs have changed.Read more
Demon Slayer Tops US Box Office For First Time Since Original Pokémon Movie
4.5.2021
The Demon Slayer feature film was a box office juggernaut in Japan, surpassing Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away as the biggest earning feature film in Japan. It’s also doing very, very well in the US.Read more
Did You Like The New Mortal Kombat Movie?
3.5.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Mega Man Composer Manami Matsumae Doesn't Miss The 9-6 Grind
3.5.2021
Few game music composers have as iconic a resume as Manami Matsumae. Starting at Capcom in 1987, her first major project was scoring the original Rockman, the game we know as Mega Man. The Cutman theme? That’s Matsumae. And she was just getting started, soon jumping from the Famicom into Capcom’s...